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PAGEANT GIRLS -- Illa (left) and Prussia True, daughters of Victoria and Jake True, have been selected to represent Kansas in the National American Miss beauty pageant in June in Columbia, Missouri. Prussia (left), age five, and Illa (right), age...

COMMUNITY STRONG

HOPE -- Maylea (left) and Danica Adams used tape and washable paint to create this window mural at their home during their time spent social distancing.

COMMUNITY STRONG

TAKE NOTE -- Local resident and school board member Mary Myers put out the call on Facebook for letters from local children and promised to write a letter back to anyone from whom she received a letter.

CHECKERS

CHECKERS-Evie and Leo White, children of Steve and Laura White, have spent some of their social distancing time playing checkers. Here they are pictured playing checkers on a board made out of Legos.

FOR A DANCER

FOR A DANCER-Grady Kepley, a member of the 5th/6th grade basketball team, was named the team’s “Dancer of the Year” award for his slick moves on the court and for keeping the team energized when not in the game.

CURBSIDE SERVICE

CURBSIDE SERVICE -- USD 417 food service staff hand out meals to students on Thursday at Council Grove Junior/Senior High School. Drive-thru meals are available at CGJSHS from 11 am. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday and at Prairie Heights Elementary...

News

Coronavirus Surge Touches Inmates, Taxes, Pastures

TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas officials are looking for extra hospital beds, releasing jail inmates and bracing for a slump in state tax collections as they add farmers’ and ranchers’ springtime practice of

By John Hanna Associated Press

Smaller Communities Prepare For Onslaught Of Virus Patients

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — It started with an infected person from out of town who attended a funeral.

By Russ Bynum And Rebecca Santana Associated Press

Pageant Girls

PAGEANT GIRLS -- Illa and Prussia True, daughters of Victoria and Jake True, have been selected to represent Kansas in the National American Miss beauty pageant in June in Columbia, Missouri.

Obituaries

Dies Tuesday

Marcelo Vasquez Reynozo, 103, passed away at Diversicare on March 24, 2020. He was born January 15, 1917 at San Julian, Jalisco, Mexico to Jesus DeAnda Reynoso and Francisca Vasquez Reynoso.

Sharon Kearney Dies

Sharon Faye Kearney (Orton) passed away at her home in Gold Canyon, AZ on December 13, 2019, at the age of 79 of lung disease related to her smoking cigarettes.

Dies Saturday

Teresa JoAnn (Lawrence) Lynch 55, of Dunlap, passed away on the evening of March 7, 2020 at Midland Hospice in Topeka, Kansas with her family by her side.

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Coronavirus Surge Touches Inmates, Taxes, Pastures

Smaller Communities Prepare For Onslaught Of Virus Patients

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Dies Tuesday

Sharon Kearney Dies

Dies Saturday

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